The October 7th massacre by Hamas created a domino effect that is still being felt around the world. It left Hezbollah destroyed, an Islamist government in Damascus, and Iran in crisis. Turkey sees an opportunity to bring back the glory days of the Ottoman Empire, and Russia teeters on the brink of collapse.
All of these ‘dominoes’ already had other pressures that they were dealing with, but their fall seemed to need Israel’s response to the largest massacre since the Holocaust. And it has allowed Europe and America to see the deep fractures that threaten our civilization.
What comes next will be… interesting.
